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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- After living with my Swisstrax flooring for a little over a year, in my "youtube professional mechanic" garage, I have decided to make this video to give a little more info on how the Swisstraxx are holding up.
I also share a few tips I have learned about keeping them clean and minimizing damage to the Swisstrax if you use your garage for more than just parking your cars.
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Awesome video! Most reviews I see never talk about the negatives like you did.
Excellent video. Totally honest with the pros and cons. This was a huge help.
FINALLY.....someone doing a garage floor review without a Corvette, Porsche or bullet bike to show off! ;) Thanks for your honest review
Lmao your mad over someone’s car 😂
Great video! Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks for the video man, nice to see a review from someone who actually wrenches in their garage vs someone who just parks their car. I was considering these since they look pretty cool but think I will stick to my epoxy flooring.
Thanks for this vid. It is definitely very rare to see a long term review of a functional garage workspace with the tiles. Really showcases they might not be the best solution for a working garage so much as one you just park your cars in and do light work.
they ARE nice if you spill liquids while you're working on your car, but overall yeah, seems more fitted for someone that details cars or does mild work on their cars.... but IF i did it again id definitely go with darker colors
Great review with live examples.
So get dark tiles, use a leaf blower, make cuts at the end.
Thanks, I have been deciding between Epoxy paint and these floors. Thinking to just go with the paint now.
Good info very helpful
Thank you so much for this.
Thanks for the video gonna go with Red and Black now really helped and try mean green spray with Mr clean magic erasers.
Here from Joeys channel. Loving it so far!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great idea of a video
pinesol with a brush cleans them really well.
Appreciate the video man, pretty much turned me away from them seeing how much maintenance there is with them in a working garage
glad it helped!
Thanks for the video. I currently have an epoxy floor with a few spots under try tires starting to peel. I was considering the tiles but they look like too much work to clean. I am ocd and clean my garage floors twice a week. I also work out in my garage and was wondering how the tiles might support the weights.
Thanks for saving me two grand. I've been going back and forth, watching tons of videos trying to figure out which way to go with our garage floor. Our problem is that it gets slick when wet. My wife and I have both been injured from slips in the garage. So these looked like a perfect solution. And I've watched a ton of videos trying to see if they were worth the expense and tradeoffs. They aren't. That cleaning process is just absurd. No way I'm pulling up tile every other month to get stains up.
For what it's worth, I'm not going epoxy either. Traction is the main goal and I don't think epoxy will give that. Looked at several high-traction paints and such. None of them seem durable, especially for the price. Looks like I'll be going old-school and putting on a skim coat of cement made just for resurfacing and giving it a broom finish. Simplest and cheapest option.
Ecodur exists
Wouldn't a skim coat still Crack when you use something like a jack
@geo1667 That is the question. But there are apparently mixes designed just for that. No way of knowing for sure.
thanks man i just subbed
The biggest advantage I see is that you get to mark the parking area perfectly, other than that they just seem hard to clean and overpriced
Subbed, nice vid
I have them and they are 2 years old and I bought them used and they still look great but it’s just to park my toys on and that what the original owner did with them. I am fixing to buy sone more dude to an add on to my garage but they will look like a black top with a yellow center stripe
Can you separate these tiles from the middle sections using a thin blade screwdriver to release the tabs?
@chris dz I've been watching many vids deciding if this stuff is my best option and someone also said the smooth gets a bit dirtier and also is harder to vac the stuff underneath through it... for what that's worth. And also the RAD Garage guy did one temp emergency clean cause it was so cold he couldn't do his obsessive pull everything out and clean underneath the tiles once a month thing. Anyway, if you did the vac thing I mentioned below and then gave it a good mop scrub once in awhile that would probably clean it well enough, but get a good proper industrial 24oz mop head, the shit in the stores kinda sucks so find probably Rubbermaid mop head. Anyway, you might have let yours go long enough that you might need to pull it out and pressure wash, but if you don't care all that much and just want it pretty clean a good mopping will probably work. Watch some of RAD Garage other vids to see how to quickly take the floor out and totally clean... I personally, would only do that where I park my car after a winter... the rest of my garage maybe every several years? I guess I would pop up some tiles and see how dirty it gets. Anyway, By your cars you most like don't have a real winter so see how this guy just vacs and then mops:
th-cam.com/video/46dHk5zjD9o/w-d-xo.html
agreed on leaving them too long.. but im not that obsessive with them, because i know they are gonna get filthy shortly after cleaning, between grease/oil and what not. plus the Mercedes leaks by itself.. id recommend a darker color if you arent gonna be as vigilant with cleaning them
Love the new intro of the car. How is it rolling a jack across?
thanks!.. the jack rolls over no problem, obviously the smooth ones are better for that, but my jack doesnt have an issue rolling on the ribtrax either
Very informative video, thank you. I’ve been thinking about doing my double garage with SwissTrax. I have two priorities: that it be non slip as I walk with a cane. I’m in the Toronto are so we get lots of real winter weather. My other consideration is that it be nice and clean, and easy to clean. I just park the cars in the garage, no detailing or other work is done in the garage. I really don’t know about other options, except epoxy, which I don’t want to use. I’d appreciate any words of advice you can offer. Thanks in advance.
if you want on it with snow packed shoes.. they are definitely slippery, but if you have a mat to knock the snow off before you walk in, you should be fine
Koch-Chemie GS (Greenstar) or ASF (all surface cleaner)
Great Video! If you had to do this over, Would you consider buying this product again or go with a epoxy flooring? or other?
i think it depends on where you live and the normal weather conditions TBH.. epoxy, if not done right, will peel up from hot tires parking on them, but the swisstrax has space for stuff to get caught under them, or even bugs living under them. where i live now im considering the epoxy route, or just painting the floor and seeing how that works for now
I was wondering. Are these slippery? Mga garage is on a little bit higher off ground and have a ramp to get up there. Would my car slip with dry/wet wheels since these are plastic?
tires might slip a little but i dont think it would be much of an issue.. if you wash your car outside and go in with a little bit of soapy water on your sneakers.. its slippery.. but not like walking on ice slippery
I bought my home with this style flooring already installed. They look cool but cleaning is a huge hassle. Dropped screws, spills, dirt... it all gets stuck down there until you remove tiles to clean.
For a showroom it'd be great but for a functional garage, no way.
in the market of buying it for my garage, would you buy this same style again or tiles that are sealed non crate style? thanks for your time
i would probably do this same style, if you work with liquids (car detailing or something similar) just for the fact that it falls thru and you dont have to stand/lay in the water/oil/coolant
I have the Smoothtrax tiles for my entire garage. For a bi-annual deep clean, I'll use Super Clean at 1:1 in a pump sprayer, scrub with a Magic Eraser, and use a 5-gallon bucket of warm water to rinse the eraser when it gets dirty. About 60% of the tiles are the light gray that you have, and I get pretty close to brand new.
After a car detail, I'll go over the garage with a steam mop so the dirt and chemicals don't sit on the tiles.
Do cats or dogs have an issue lying or walking on this???????
Can this product be used in the open where it will be exposed to sun and rain ? Eg; is walkways and exterior garage spaces
youd have to check their website for that.. i personally wouldnt use it there just because they can get slippery when wet
Great video. Would you buy them again or coat the floor. Seems p about the same price.
i would buy again for sure.. but i think i wanna try out an epoxy floor in my new place
This is sooooooo useful, I googled the whole internet trying to find videos like this. And didn’t find anything. Then you popped up randomly on my feed.
What about buckling when turning the steering wheel?
How even was your floor, I have variance up to 1in ?
i didnt have any issues with buckling, but i was also not making tight turns in the garage, kinda just straight in, and straight out with small corrections to get me where i wanted to park. for variances, no. i had 1 or 2 spots with like a chunk missing out of the concrete in the floor but nothing major, so i cant comment on that
@@chrisdz thank you! I appreciate your reply!
Have you had any issues with the floor warping in direct sunlight/heat from exhaust?
no i havent. even hot tires after going for a drive i havent had issues..
@@chrisdz I currently have floor tiles in my garage that warp/buckle from heat. The tile material expands in the heat: sun, heater, heat from my exhaust… any of them. It will contract/go back to normal once the heat is removed. It’s so frustrating.
@@wesdaniels5636 Don't know if you're still wondering about these tiles, but I did my 2 car garage and its been consistently 90ºF + with 1 day hitting 100º F this week. The tiles were put with 1/4" to 1/16" away from the walls and exposed to the sun when the door was opened. I haven't seen the tiles move, warp or anything. Swisstrax are awesome.
Great video, would u still recommend it after 3 years? Thanks for the go darker comment, was gona go white/silver lol... now prob jetblack/slategrey
I moved from that house and didn’t take the flooring with me.. but from dealing with them I’d still say they are good to go, as long as you make sure to just keep some things in mind when working on a car.. hot things will burn thru(welding/using a grinder), and putting a base under your jack stands so the feet don’t break thru
@chris dz looks like no one gave any cleaning advice. I can tell that your push broom is super stiff... I have one like that left with the house I bought... Sucks for regular sweeping so a softer one would work better for sure. The one you have if for like pushing dirt and rocks and heavier crap off a not real smooth sidewalk or driveway... a softer one would do a nicer clean sweep more for like indoor floors. I don't have these tiles yet, not sure when I will be able to afford them but I still want to be able to clean my ugly concrete floor quickly and easily. I just have a big normal Rigid shop vac from Home Depot. Came with 2 extension wand straight pieces, I will get 1 more and I won't even have to bend over at all. I just bought this floor brush accessory and took it home and tried it... worked beautifully. I was able to quickly vacuum the floor... it can't get any easier then that. Using the normal attachment it makes the scraping noise, get caught on every bump and crack, and when you are at the right angle you get the sucked to the floor problem... That would be what you would use to try an vacuum what's under the tiles out through them, at least as much as that works. But for just a quick surface vac... this floor brush worked perfectly... I so happy about that cause I want stuff clean but hate cleaning. Here is what I bought, find something similar:
www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-2-1-2-in-Locking-Accessory-Floor-Brush-for-Wet-Dry-Vacs-LA2514/304753770
i couldnt find the softer broom(might have been in the basement). but the stiffer one helped demonstrate my point 😆 .. the smooth ones are easier to sweep than the rib... i should probably buy that attachment you sent 🤔
Would lighter sweeping at 45 degree angles minimize the dry leaves getting caught and breaking up? A regular broom rather than a push broom would likely work better also since that's more a sideways force than down into the ground.
You gotta link for them cabinets?
amzn.to/4adjlWo i dont think they offer the exact version of what i had in my garage, but this is the same amount of pieces (i had ordered an extra wall cabinet seperate)
Have you tried a pressure washer?
You would blow them apart
RAD Garage is the channel of a detailer in Canada, where like me they actually have real winters, unlike the rest of you babies in the south, lol. Anyway, that guy kinda sold me as all I was seeing was stuff where they don't track in salt and sand all winter. The guy obsessively cleans his floor and under it way more then needed but it's held up and looks pretty much new for 9 yrs. I have a shit house but the lower level is garage workshop, very old and ugly, bout 1k sq feet with 10' ceilings... I may have to spend $5k on this flooring, but if I move, I can take it with me... so that's a plus I hadn't thought of.
we have winter in NY! 😂 they definitely work good to help not track dirt and grime in.
The floor is worth more than the car. ROFLMAO
I don’t think anyone cares